Vita Peacock

Research
Interests

Europe

Organistations

Social
Movements

Hierarchy
/ Heterarchy

Digital
mediation and the public sphere

Political Anthropology and Political Thought

Research
Project

I am currently working with members of the group
that calls itself ‘Anonymous’ here in the UK. Rather being subsumed by its
online ‘hacktivist’ arm (as explored by Gabriella Coleman) I am fascinated by
how Anonymous UK has materialised in recent years as a vibrant form of street
protest, becoming a signifier for a variety of fused revolutionary
political-cum-cosmological projects. The ethnography will conclude with the
climax of Britain’s next general election in 2015.

On 4th – 5th June 2015 I will
be convening a conference at UCL entitled The War of Worlds: Self and Society in
Social Movements. Please email me if you would like further
information.